1767 in Ireland

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See also:Other events of 1767
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1767 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George III

Events[]

  • 20 July – Arthur Chichester, 5th Earl of Donegall, grants new leases for most of his property holdings in Belfast, obliging tenants to redevelop.[1]
  • 19 August – Viscount Townshend appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (sworn 14 October).[1]
  • The titles Earl of Howth and Viscount St Lawrence are created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Thomas St Lawrence, 15th Baron Howth.[2]
  • A Magdalen Asylum was established by Lady Arabella Denny in Leeson Street, for Protestant women. [3]

Arts and literature[]

  • Hugh Kelly's novel Memoirs of a Magdalen is published.
  • John O'Keeffe's first play, The She Gallant, is performed at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.

Births[]

  • 1 January – Maria Edgeworth, novelist (died 1849).
  • 14 March – Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council (died 1850).
  • 19 May – Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, diplomat, Irish, and later British, MP (died 1837).
  • 31 August – Henry Joy McCracken, cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen (died 1798).
  • 21 November – Thomas Russell, co-founder and leader of the United Irishmen, executed for his part in Robert Emmet's rebellion (died 1803).
    Full date unknown
    • John Moore, participant in Irish Rebellion of 1798, proclaimed President of the Government of the Province of Connaught (died 1799).

Deaths[]

  • 30 November – John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence, politician (born 1709).

References[]

  1. ^ a b Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
  2. ^ Lodge, John; Archdall, Mervyn (1789). The Complete Peerage. Dublin: J. Murray.
  3. ^ Kilfeather, Siobhán Marie (2005). Dublin: A Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-19-518202-6.


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